Year: 2015
Police clash with anti-Charlie Hebdo protesters in Karachi
Police fired water cannon and bullets in the air as they clashed with anti-Charlie Hebdo protesters outside the French consulate…
African Artistes Unite For Kefee
Funsho Arogundade Artistes from all over Africa will converge on the Daystar Christian Centre, Lagos, Nigeria on 5 February for…
Asian Cup: Ray Wilkins’s Jordan thrash Palestine 5-1
Hamza Aldaradreh scored the first hat-trick of the Asian Cup on Friday as Jordan hammered Palestine 5-1 to keep themselves…
2015 Election: Governor Dickson bans TAN activities in Bayelsa
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Pressured by various group who are jostling to promote the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan the Bayelsa…
Lawyer slams N1billion suit on IGP, police over mother’s death
Akin Kuponiyi A Lagos-based lawyer, Miss Amaka Onyeabo, has slammed one billion naira on the Inspector General of Police over…
Your condition will not be permanent, Jonathan tells IDPs
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday assured internally displaced persons that the situation they found themselves due to insurgency would be…
Ten months on, Australia confident of finding MH370
Missing airliner MH370 is “very likely” to be found if it lies in the undersea zone now being scoured, and…
Amosun: Ogun people will reject SDP, PDP
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, western Nigeria, has declared that he is not intimidated by the campaigns…
Burundi opposition leader sentenced for five years for bribery
A top Burundi opposition leader has been sentenced to five years in jail for bribery following a sex scandal he…
Condemn use of girls as suicide bombers by Boko Haram – UN
UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, on Thursday, said the world must unite to condemn Boko Haram’s new…
Shark attacks teenager off Australian beach
A teenage boy was taken to hospital Friday after being bitten by a shark he was filming off Australia’s east…
If the Opposition could win in Sri Lanka, APC can win Nigeria
When an opposition party rises to the level that it can trounce the ruling party, it only signals one thing;…
I Am Embarrassed To Have Jonathan As My President
by Gbenga Olorunpomi For weeks, I had resisted the urge to write. So many landmark events have transpired in the…
Nigerian, five others to be executed for drugs in Indonesia
A convicted Nigerian drug trafficker is among six drug offenders to be executed in Indonesia on Sunday. The Nigerian,38 year-old…
Juventus says Pogba’s future could lie elsewhere
Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri has indicated the future of star midfielder Paul Pogba could lie elsewhere, as the champions look…
Belgium raid on terror group kills two
Belgian police shot dead two alleged militants in a gun battle Thursday during a huge operation to foil what they…
Nigeria will overcome Boko Haram soon, says Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan has assured that Nigeria will soon overcome the Boko Haram insurgency, going by recent developments. The President…
Red Cross nurse dies from Ebola in Sierra Leone
A nurse working for the Red Cross in Sierra Leone has died of Ebola in the eastern district of Kenema,…
Prof. Osinbajo, Cardinal Okogie Call For Responsible Leaders
Henry Ojelu Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, All Progressives Congress (APC) vice presidential candidate and Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie have declared that…
I feel pained when I hear Nigerians flee to Cameroon, Chad – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan has said it pains him to hear that Nigerians flee to Cameroon, Chad as Internally Displaced Persons…
Torres brace dumps Real Madrid out of Copa del Rey
Fernando Torres scored his first Atletico Madrid goals in eight years as the La Liga champions dumped holders Real Madrid…
Boko Haram: Chad to send troops to support Cameroon
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya announced Thursday that neighbouring Chad will send troops to aid his country’s army fight Boko Haram…
I never endorsed anyone as president, says Soyinka
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has denounced and dismissed reports that he has endorsed a presidential candidate ahead of the…
PDP chief intimidates opposition, says party will muscle will through
Hours after President Goodluck Jonathan inked a peace pact with his All Progressives Congress counterpart, Maj. General Muhammadu Buhari over…
Boko Haram terrorism traumatic for all, says Jonathan
*Nigeria’s President visits troops and displaced people from Baga Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan says terrorism as unleashed by Boko haram…
5 die in Akwa Ibom gas explosion
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), in Eket has confirmed five persons dead in gas explosion at Afaha Ukwa in…
Police promotes 1 DIG, 2 AIGs, 11 other senior officers
Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the promotion of one Deputy Inspector-General of Police, two Assistant Inspectors-General of Police and…
Jonathan visits Maiduguri, 275 days after Chibok girls kidnapped
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday made a surprise visit to the troubled northeast, which is in the grip of…
FG to inaugurate over 1 million prepayment meters
The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, on Thursday in Abuja said that the Federal Government would soon inaugurate over…
FG to construct 75MW gas turbines to boost refinery operations
The Federal Government said it planned to construct three 25 megawatts gas turbines at Port Harcourt Refining Company Limited (PHRC)…